Marijuana businesses form coalition to defend against federal intervention
A new national coalition of businesses in the legal marijuana trade plans to fight federal efforts to intervene in states' regulation of cannabis.
The chairman of the New Federalism Fund is Neal Levine of Boulder, senior vice president of government affairs for LivWell Enlightened Health, a Colorado company with 14 locations.
They're not messing around. The fund's lobbying firm? Powerhouse Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck of Denver, which earned $25 million last year lobbying for everybody from McDonald's and Comcast to the Navajo Nation and University of Utah.
"As the president stated in his recent address to Congress, every problem facing our nation can be solved by working together," Levine said in a statement. "We agree and look forward to working with the president and congress to support and improve the legal framework for cannabis that promotes public safety, local economic development and our federalist system."
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Deal with it, Wall Street types! 